hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the permanent site for the capital at Washington, D. C. The City of Lancaster can claim a deep interest in the event due to the fact that a citizen, Andrew Ellicott, was the chief surveyor of the city on the Potomac. We know that you will hear loud

): Capitals (Cities) Lancaster (Pa.)--Capital and capitol. United States--Capital and capitol. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [111]-113 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 4 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.1

became effective in 1781 while Congress was sitting in Philadelphia. Therefore the only place that has the right to call itself the "First Capital of the United States of America" is Philadelphia—site of the First Continental Congress and site of the first Congress under the Articles of Confederation

attention to practical astron- omy, and what I do is at my own expense. The President of the United States is a lover of science and a man of science himself, but he has no power by our constitution to aid any branch of philosophy, mechanics or literature unless it is at his own cost .. . ANDREW ELLICOTT TO

life of a man it has become one of the most important ferries within the United States.13 —Lancaster Journal Aug. 15, 1809 Andrew Ellicott is Removed by Governor Snyder In the years since 1802 Andrew Ellicott, Secretary of the Land Office, had not only been an efficient public servant, but he had come

- quehanna river during the fall, winter and spring at Havre de Grace, occa- sioned by the floating ice and prevalence of high winds, it has been deter- mined by the general government to find a safer and more expeditious route for the conveyance of the mails between the cities of Washington and Phila

proceedings in 1800 when a special sessicn of the Pennsylvania assembly had to be con- vened to choose electors, the authorities moved early to forestall any such recurrence. A special election for "electors for President and Vice President of the United States" was announced by proclamation, such election to

its possibilities were brought into mind, by accidentally running across the report of the debate in the United States Senate in 1836, the last year of Jackson's Administration, when the award of a monumental work in front of the Capitol building, in Washington, to a particular Italian sculptor, was

%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Sener, Samuel Miller, 1855-1911. Title: Lancaster's bid for the national capital / read by S. M. Sener, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Capitals (Cities) Lancaster (Pa.)--Capital and capitol. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

. In 1792 Mr. Ellicott was appointed Surveyor General of the United States. In 1795 he superintended the construction of Fort Erie, now Erie, Pa., and was also employed to lay out the towns of Warren and Franklin. In 1796 his friend, Washington, appointed him United States Commissioner to determine the